Sf Masterworks: Raft

Sf Masterworks: RaftStephen Baxter's highly acclaimed first novel and the beginning of his stunning Xeelee Sequence finally enters the SF Masterwork series! A spaceship from Earth accidentally crossed through a hole in space time to a universe where the force of gravity is one billion times as strong as the gravity we know. Somehow the crew survived, aided by the fact that they emerged into a cloud of gas surrounding a black hole, which provided a breathable atmosphere.

But who has been hiding in the shadows

In his follow-up to the New York Times bestseller What Got You Here Won't Get You There

Look out for make-ups

What will your new home be like

fox their readers and help to pay for the Club's running costs

the children have all the time in the world to devise ingenious money-making schemes: from digging for treasure in their Lewisham garden to becoming highwaymen on Blackheath Common

" and Henry's former mistress

Mutants are hunted as criminals

The rituals of Papuan warriors and headhunters - whose traditional way of life endured until deep into the twentieth century - form the intriguing backdrop to The Voice of the Spirits

a man she has heard of only from a ghost of a poet

Fear is a collection of deliciously dark ghost stories for adults

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